- Keyword = Ethnobotany
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MEDICINAL PLANTS IN FOLK TRADITION: An Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland.
Edition: First edition.
Portland, OR: Timber Press, (2004). Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive look at the medicinal uses of more than 400 species used by the people of Britain and Ireland. Based on firsthand accounts captured by surveys, on more than 1000 manuscript volumes of the Irish Folklore Commission, and on 300 other published and unpublished sources. Includes illustrations from herbals such as those by Bock, Fuchs, and Brunfels, a map and a selection of color photographs by Deni Bown. Includes an appendix on veterinary remedies, sources and indexes of folk uses, scientific names and vernacular names. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-881926388.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71246More details Price: $60.00 -
POINSETTIAS: The December Flower - Myth and Legend - History and Botanical Fact.
Edition: First printing.
Tiburon, CA: Waters Edge Press, (1997). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated throughout in full color.Everything imaginable about this plant, from his history in Aztec days to how it became a symbol of Christmas and how to care fro the plants. Bibliography, index. Square format, 63 pp. ISBN: 0-965622495.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 62131More details Price: $16.50 -
ARCHIVE OF ETHNOBOTANIST ANTHONY KWEKU ANDOH,ÊPh. D., F. L.S.,
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 90928More details Price: $125.00 -
TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Two journalists who came back from an assignment in Indian Country with a powerful message for humankind share the intensely personal story surrounding their time with the Wisdomkeepers, and continue to extoll the Native American approach to humanity and life." Photographs. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684800942.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86102More details Price: $16.50 -
PHARMACEUTISCHE BOTANIK IN TABELLEN-FORM: Eine kurzgefaste Anleitung zur Kenntniss sammtlicher,
Edition: First edition.
Berlin: in der Schuppel'schen Buchhandlung, 1831. Hardcover first edition - in der funften Ausgabe der preufsischen Pharmakopoe aufgefuhrten, und vieler andern mit ihnen verwandten Pflanzen. Nebst einer fasslichen Darstellung der offizinellen Pflanzenfamilien nach Jussieu's naturlichem System. Register. Errata. 84 pp mit 2 kupfertafeln. 19 cm x 23 cm. / Pharmaceutical botany in tabular form: a concise guide to the knowledge of all the plants listed in the fifth edition of the Prussian Pharmacopoeia and many other plants related to them. In addition to a clear representation of the official plant families according to Jussieu's natural system. Index, errata 84 pp plus 2 engraved plates of botantical drawings.Text in Geman.
Condition: Good only in plain black boards - wear to the covers, contents very good. Laid in the upper portion of an invoice from Dietrich & Stewart, Druggists and Chemists with Dayton O 185- printed at the top.
Book ID: 90192More details Price: $600.00 -
POISONOUS PLANTS OF PAKISTAN.
Edition: First edition.
Oxford, New York & Karachi, Pakistan: Oxford University Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects in one volume information about the poisonous plants that can be found in Pakistan which previously could only be found in scattered, specialized scientific papers. A beautiful book, in which detailed descriptions of the plants are accompanied by author's own accurate full color botanical drawing which highlight the poisonous parts of each plant. Of interest especially since otherwise toxic or poisonous plant extracts can have therapeutic value at lower dosage levels. Includes notes and references with each plant, plus glossary of botanical and medical terms, index of common English names and botanical names. xv, 512 pp. ISBN: 9780195977899.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 59228More details Price: $60.00 -
PLANTS USED IN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN WEST AFRICA / PLANTES UTILISEES DANS LA MEDECINE TRADITIONELLE EN AFRIQUE DE LOUEST.
Edition: First edition.
Basel, Switzerland: Editiones Roche, (1991). Hardcover first edition - Bilingual edition with the text printed in two columns - English on the left and French on the right. Edition bilingue avec le texte imprime en deux colonnes - anglais a gauche et franais a droite. Illustrated with full color full page botanical paintings by Amon Aya Lazare. Index of common names and local names. Bibliography. 151 pp. ISBN: 5-907946596.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards., no dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 90917More details Price: $75.00 -
MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE WEST INDIES.
Edition: First printing.
Algonic, MI: Reference Publications, Inc., (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Caribbean islands have had a long acquaintance with herbal medicine in the form of "bush teas" going back to the early days of slavery and using both plants introduced from West Africa and indigenous plants. Illustrated with full page botanical drawings throughout. The second book in the series "Medicinal Plants of the World." Includes notes, glossary, bibliography, medicinal index, common names index and index to species. 282 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-917256123.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83982More details Price: $150.00 -
ON THE RACES OF THE OPIUM POPPY GROWING IN SEMIRECH'E AND THE ORIGIN OF THEIR CULTURE.
Edition: First English language edition.
New Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta & New York: Amerind Publishing, (1976). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon monograph, translated from the Russian. Illustrated with photographs, maps (including one folding map). References. 68 pp.
Condition: Very good in salmon cloth (sunning to the edges of the board and the spine)
Book ID: 66520More details Price: $100.00 -
SOCIETY AND DRUGS: Drugs I: Social and Cultural Observations & STUDENTS AND DRUGS: Drugs II: College and High School Observations (2 volume set)
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A publication of the Institute for the Study of Human Problems, Stanford University. Each volume has a bibliography and index. xvi, 400 pp. xix, 399 pp. ISBN: 0-87589-0334; 0-87589-0342.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jackets.
Book ID: 58588More details Price: $65.00 -
CHARLATAN: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Art of FlimFlam.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57740More details Price: $20.00 -
SACRED PLANT MEDICINE: Exploration in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism.
Edition: First printing.
Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Focuses primarily on plants as they were used by Native Americans in North America. "Useful as a reference book and inspires the reader to look again at the plant world as a source of life and healing." INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- in the spirit of the plants" and dated in 1997. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Includes 19 full color botanical plates by Cyncie Marini. Foreword by Brooke Medicine Eagle. Appendices, index. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-570980853.
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (very minor edgewear on dustjacket).
Book ID: 54600More details Price: $75.00 -
MAGIC, MYTH AND MEDICINE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket: "Whatever reason is given for being ill, a vast body of preventive and therapeutic folk medicine and practice has evolved through the centuries. Many of these 'cures' have a surprisingly scientific basis, and, in the light of modern knowledge, are far more efficacious than might be imagined from the beliefs on which they are founded. This fascinating book examine folk medicine from many countries, traces its origins and development and describes its surprising survival into this scientific and computerized age." Illustrated, bibliography, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-800850467.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (some sunning to the spine, minor edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 75108More details Price: $20.00 -
TO WINDWARD OF THE LAND: The Occult World of Alexander Charles.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83710More details Price: $35.00 -
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN MODERN ZIMBABWE.
Edition: First edition.
Harare, Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe, (1994). First edition - In addition to information about healers - how they go into practice, their backgrounds and their medicine and methods - this includes a discussion on witchcraft and sorcery. Charts, notes, bibliography. ix, 115 pp. ISBN: 0-908307403.
Condition: Good overall in printed orange wrappers - some wear to covers, contents clean. Uncommon.
Book ID: 90918More details Price: $45.00 -
"The Healing Art in Primitive Society" in MANKIND: Official Journal of the Anthropological Societies of Australia Volume 4 Number 10. May 1953
Edition: First printing.
Sydney: Anthropological Society of New South Wales, 1953. First edition - In addition to the featured article on "The Healing Art in Primitive Society" this includes articles on the discovery of adze heads in New Guinea and a selection of children's songs from Ooldea in W. South Australia. Illustrated with maps and drawings. pp 394 to 434.
Condition: Good only in printed red wrappers - some wear to the covers, toning to the pages, prev owner's name.
Book ID: 54772More details Price: $25.00 -
ON THE ROAD TO TETLAMA: Mexican Adventures of a Wandering Naturalist .
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Armchair adventure for the reader with a keen interest in both natural history and exotic culture... Here is an 'on the road'tale that combines a naturist's observations, misadventures, encounters with birds and people - and discoveries about himself - during several months in backcountry Mexico." Accounts of life among the Nahuat Indians, and several sections describing the birds. Illustrated with drawings by Kelli Glancey.Index. xi, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802711529.
Condition: Ex-library with very few marks (appears uncirculated, tight and clean) in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 73627More details Price: $15.00 -
DELFINA CUERO: Her Autobiography - An Account of Her Last Years and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90919More details Price: $17.50 -
SHADOWS IN THE SUN: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Lone Pine Publishing (1992). First edition - The author, a Harvard ethnobotanist, writes with empathy and understanding and personal experience about indigenous tribes from the tropics to the Arctic circle. Included are chapters on shamanic healing, the plants of the gods - and on the end of the wild. Photographs. 156 pp. ISBN: 1551050269.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 56933More details Price: $45.00 -
WATUNNA: An Orinoco Creation Cycle
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One of the oldest and longest of American creation myths, this oral tale has been gathered in Venezuela over the past 15 years by Marc de Civirieux, one of South America's leading anthropologists." Edited and translated by David Guss. Preface and glossary. Photographs. viii, 195 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-86547-0022.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43369More details Price: $25.00 -
DIFFERENT TRUTHS: Ethnomedicine in Early Postcards.
Edition: First edition., a large trade paperback.
Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, (2010). First edition - An exploration of supernatural and natural healing practices all over the world through 270 colonial postcards from a private collection, published in conjunction with an exhibition of these postcards in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2009. Shown in their original colors, the cards are a rich source of visual information about native health and healing, but also a source which needs to be considered with care, since many reflect the colonial prejudices and racist attitudes of the time. Notes, references. Large format. 215 pp. ISBN: 978-9460220173.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77972More details Price: $35.00 -
PSYCHEDELIC SHAMANISM: The Cultivation, Preparation, and Shamanic Use of Psychotropic Plants.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90920More details Price: $24.50 -
ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH MIDWIFERY.
Edition: First edition.
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1823. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this noted Philadelphia physician, who is considered as changing the history of obstetrics in the US; he was among the first to contend with professional prejudice against doctors delivering babies, and his work helped to make it a respected branch of medicine. Topics include blood-letting; premature birth; rupture, inversion, haemorrhage and retroversion of the uterus; a reply to Dr. Peachy Harrison re impregnation; observation on Burns' "History of the Gravid Uterus;" sudden alteration of the color of the hair; use of volatile tincture of guaiacum in Catamenia; puerperal convulsions; dysmenorrhoea; suppression of menses; Bell's paper on the muscularity of the uterus and much more. iv, 9-479 pp.
Condition: Good condition in the original tan leather with black and gilt spine labels - foxing and browning throughout, rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, and a bit of fraying on ends of spine - but overall a sturdy and tightly bound copy.
Book ID: 53387More details Price: $225.00 -
PSYCHEDELIC JOURNEY OF MARLENE DOBKIN DE RIOS: 45 Years With Shamans, Ayahuasqueros & Ethnobotanists.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, (2009). First edition - An account of almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by this noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Although the Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, including de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this compound. Illustrated with photographs, including some in full color. Glossary, list of publications by de Rios, bibliography, index. xvi, 190 pp. ISBN: 9781594773136.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new) .
Book ID: 81181More details Price: $25.00 -
IT STARTED IN EDEN: How the Plant-Hunters and the Plants They Found Changed the Course of History.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1979) dj. Hardcover - An account of some of the early botanists, explorers and foot-loose travellers brought us such things as coffee, tea and chocolate, spices from black pepper to nutmeg, cloves and more - as well as medicinal herbs like quinine from the "fever bark tree." Bibliography, index. vii, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-070172900.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 87998More details Price: $18.50 -
THE PLANT MAGIC MAN.
Edition: First thus- a slim trade paperback, issued simultaneously with a signed limited edition.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1973. First edition - An essay by Durrell on his experience with Ludo Chardenon, a herbalist in Arles, Provence. Cover blocks by Margaret Wilson. The fifth title in the 'Yes! Capra Chapbook Series' edited by Robert Durand and Noel Young. Illustrated with small decorations and woodcuts throughout. 25 pp plus a facsimile copy of Chardenon's preparations and plants, a final woodcut, a photograph of Chardenon and Durrell and the colophon. ISBN: 0-912264-519.
Condition: Very good overall in illustrated wrappers (small chip to upper corner of front cover.)
Book ID: 60795More details Price: $15.00 -
Traditional Medicine and Pharmacopoeia: CONTRIBUTION TO ETHNOBOTANICAL AND FLORISTIC STUDIES IN CAMEROON.
Edition: First edition.
(Porto-Novo (Benin) STRC / OUA, 1996. First edition - Published under the auspices of the Scientific, Technical and Research Commission (STRC) of the Organization of African Unity, this is the first comprehensive survey of the medicinal plants of the area, including many which are indigenous to Cameroon. Each plant is described in alpahabetical order and is illustrated by a line drawing. Also includes listings of the major diseases and their treatments, a glossary, an index of the medicinal plants by disease, an index of the vernacular names of these plants and more. vi, 641 pp. ISBN: 9782453661.
Condition: Very good in printed grey wrappers.
Book ID: 56051More details Price: $200.00 -
ETHNOMEDICAL SYSTEMS IN AFRICA: Patterns of Traditional Medicine in Rural and Urban Kenya.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Guilford Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the survival, adaptation and utilization of traditional medical systems in a rapidly modernizing country and suggests that a collaboration between traditional and Western biomedicine would advance the goals of community health. Photographs, references, index. xxi, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-89862-7796.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53820More details Price: $50.00 -
PLANTS AND INDIGENOUS MEDICINE AND DIET: Biobehavioral Approaches.
Edition: First edition.
Bedford Hills, NY: Redgrave Publishing, (1986). Hardcover first edition - A multidisciplinary approach to this topic with contributions by 18 writers, and an introduction to each section by the editor. Included are papers on Folk Anti-cancer Plants by James Duke; Aztec Medicinal Herbs by Bernard Ortiz de Montellano; Coca in Andean Cultural Perspective by Jim Weil and much more. Illustrated with photographs, diagrams and tables. Index. xii, 336 p. : ill. ISBN: 0-913178020.
Condition: Fine in olive green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover.
Book ID: 71870More details Price: $65.00 -
THE PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOGNOSY: An Introduction to the Study of the Crude Substances of the Vegetable Kingdom.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: William Wood & Company, 1887. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Frederick B. Power from the second and completely revised (and expanded) edition of 'Grundlagen der Pharmaceutischen Waarenkunde,' originally published in Germany in 1873. Includes 186 illustrations in the text. Index. xiv, 294 pp.
Condition: Ex-medical society library but with only a few marks, and overall tight and clean in original dark green cloth with gilt lettering and bands on the spine. A few shallow scratches to the cloth.
Book ID: 80973More details Price: $95.00